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  Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.
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- Explain to me Quantum Entanglement
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+ Tell me everything you know about Quantum Entanglement
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+ Quantum entanglement, in its simplest form, involves two particles becoming so intimately connected that their properties become linked. If one particle is measured for some property -- such as spin or polarization -- then whatever is found out about it will apply to the other particle too, no matter how far away it may be. This link can persist even when the particles are separated by vast distances, provided they remain unobserved. It's almost like a ghostly connection between them.
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+ The weirdness does not end there. Whenever someone measures the entangled pair of particles, they always find that each particle has taken on opposite values from those of its twin. For instance, if one particle is determined to have a positive spin, then the other must have a negative spin. The moment the first particle is observed, the state of the second particle instantly changes. No signal seems to travel faster than light, but somehow information about what happens at one location influences events taking place elsewhere. In effect, quantum mechanics allows particles to communicate instantaneously across any distance. Einstein called this "spooky action at a distance," and he considered it absurd. He famously dismissed the idea with the quip: "God does not play dice."
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+ Despite these strange behaviors, physicists accept quantum mechanics because it agrees with experiments conducted over many decades. But the theory doesn't explain why things happen the way they do. Instead, it simply predicts probabilities based on statistical patterns derived from large numbers of measurements. These patterns allow scientists to build reliable machines like computers and transistors.
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+ In 1964, John Stewart Bell proposed a test that would show whether quantum mechanics was truly nonlocal or whether hidden variables were at work. A Bell test works by measuring correlations between pairs of entangled particles. By observing enough pairs under different conditions, researchers could determine whether quantum mechanics predicted the results correctly or whether there had to be something beyond physics at work. Over the years, various research groups have performed hundreds of trials using different arrangements of particles and measurement techniques. Every time, quantum mechanics came through without a hitch. So much for locality.
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+ But wait! There's more. In 2015, Nicolas Gisin, a physicist at the University of Geneva, published a paper claiming to have tested Bell's inequality using a system involving four particles instead of just two. Under his experimental conditions, Bell's inequality should hold true, but it didn't. The result suggested that the experiment was testing the limits of the universe itself. As Nature put it, "If confirmed, [the result] could mean that there really might be no deeper level of reality beneath quantum mechanics, and that our ordinary world exists only thanks to complex interactions among atoms." The implications are profound, but it remains to be seen whether anyone can replicate Gisin's experiment and prove it correct.
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+ One intriguing application of quantum entanglement is in the field of cryptography. Because of its seemingly magical properties, it appears possible to use entangled particles to send secure messages that cannot be intercepted. You can read more about that here.